Is CoP still open

[disneygeek]

Is CoP still open? It was open Jersey week. It malfunctioned while we were on it. Some people exited the theater just as it was supposed to rotate. Do you think that caused it to malfunction?

 

[LibertyBelle]

Yes it is still open. It should remain open daily until "Stitch's Great Escape" opens in place of Alein Encounter.

As for your other question, yes... the ride system is set up in such a way that if the door is open it will stop the show. Because you are not in a show area (as you are rotating around the building) and there are dangers involved if someone was to try and exit in the middle of the show it will stop the show immediatly.

 

[zen1]

Hi LibertyBelle,

I was just wondering if you knew when "Stitch's Great Escape" will open? Thanks.

I LOVE DISNEY, Zen1

 

[jonsmom57]

I have read Fall 2004

 

[disneygeek]

Thanks libertybelle,

I realize that what we used to call malfunctions could've just been caused by someone leaving the show.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Did you guys ever hear this about the COP/America Sings in Disneyland? Found on snopes.com:


A hostess working the America Sings attraction was crushed to death by a rotating wall.
Status: True.

Origins: A little more than a week after Disneyland's refurbished Carousel of Progress theater reopened as America Sings in 1974, an 18-year-old cast member was killed when she became caught between a rotating wall and a stationary one. The Carousel of Progress had been shut down and its animatronic workings shipped to Florida's Walt Disney World in 1973; the Disneyland attraction was then revamped and debuted on 29 June 1974 as America Sings. Like its predecessor, the attraction featured an outer ring of six seating areas which rotated around a stationary center housing multiple stages.

On the evening of 8 July 1974, a 18-year-old woman from Santa Ana named Deborah Gail Stone was working the attraction as a hostess. Her job was to greet each new audience as they settled into the seating area. Standing to the left of the stage, she welcomed the guests over a microphone before the outer ring rotated and carried the audience to the first scene of the carousel. About 11:00 PM that evening, Stone approached too closely to the area between the rotating theater wall and the non-moving stage wall and was crushed to death between them. Ride operators were notified by a guest who heard Stone's screams from an adjacent theater.

Immediately after the accident, America Sings was closed for two days while a safety light that alerted the attraction's operator whenever someone got too close to the danger area was installed. Eventually the solid walls were replaced with breakaway ones to prevent similar accidents from occurring.